Mangfall Valley Railway

Mangfall Valley Railway
Overview
Native name	Mangfalltalbahn
Type	Heavy rail, Regional rail
Status	Operational
Locale	Bavaria
Termini	Holzkirchen Rosenheim
Stations	10
Line number	5622
Operation
Opened	31 October 1857
Owner	Deutsche Bahn
Operator(s)	Meridian
Technical
Line length	37
Number of tracks	Double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	15 kV/16,7 Hz AC Overhead line
Route number	958
Route map from Munich Hbf (S-Bahn ) 0.0 HolzkirchenTerminus of 682 m to Lenggries and to Schliersee 6.6 Kreuzstraßeterminus of 622 m to München-Giesing (Munich S-Bahn ) 13.5 Westerham Feldolling(planned) 20.8 Bruckmühl 22.2 Heufeldmühle 23.7 Bruckmühl-Hinrichssegen(planned) 24.8 Heufeld Branch Bad Aibling–Feilnbach railway 27.8 Bad Aibling 28.6 Bad Aibling Kurpark 33,0 Kolbermoor 34.7 Rosenheim-Aicherpark(planned) from Munich and from Mühldorf 37 Rosenheim 448 m Mangfall to Kufstein (Rosenheim Curve) to Salzburg

The Mangfall Valley Railway (German: Mangfalltalbahn) (KBS 958) is a single-tracked, electrified railway that runs through the Mangfall valley in Bavaria, Germany, between Holzkirchen and Rosenheim. It is exclusively used by regional services. However it also acts as a diversionary line in case of difficulties on the Munich–Rosenheim railway.

The Mangfall Valley Railway was part of the first rail link between Munich and Rosenheim (and beyond that to Salzburg/Kufstein), the so-called Maximiliansbahn. It was built by the state of Bavaria and completed on 31 October 1857. At that time the route ended in the Rosenheim suburb of Am Roßacker. Not until 13 November 1858 was the first "real" station opened in Rosenheim complete with locomotive shed and turntable. That locomotive shed still exists today and is used as an exhibition building (e.g. the Bajuwaren- and Der Inn exhibitions). The railway was mainly used at that time to transport coal from the mine at Hausham to the Salinensudhaus salt works in Rosenheim.

From Bad Aibling there was an electrified branch line to Bad Feilnbach, now dismantled. There was also a short stub line to Vagen, that was still used in the 1940s for passenger traffic. Later the tracks were only used to access the Leitzach factory, before it was knocked down in the early 1990s.

The planned double-tracked expansion of the route has not been realised to this day, because in 1871 the newly built direct route from Munich to Rosenheim via Grafing (today the KBS 950/KBS 951) took over the role of the main line. In 1971 the line was electrified in order to provide a relief line for the heavily trafficked KBS 950 route. The turnouts in the stations are unusually long in order to fulfil this function.

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